Re: HTML documentation - one file per function

[John Swensen]

On May 3, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Søren Hauberg wrote:

> lør, 03 05 2008 kl. 11:54 -0400, skrev John Swensen:
> > Is there a way to process the docstrings so as to create one file per
> > function?  I have started work on OctaveDE again and want to make a
> > help browser.  I can simply use the existing HTML documentation, but
> > would prefer to have it in the format of one HTML file per function.
> > I would then try to work in cross referencing and the like.  Has
> > someone already done this before?
>
> You mean like the Function Reference at the Octave-Forge web site,
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html ?
>
> Søren

Would it be too much to ask someone who has access to the webserver to  
zip/tgz up all the HTML from the "Function Reference" portion of the  
website and send it to me offline.  I have been fighting trying to get  
it to build off-and-on for 2 days now and can't get it to do all of  
it.  I have the DOCSTRINGS from octave in place, but it won't generate  
the pages for interpreter functions.

I wrote a simple little help viewer (in GTK since the rest of OctaveDE  
is in that also) that uses a full-text search library called Xapian to  
index all the files.  Currently it only works on-line; e.g. I index  
the files to create a local search database and then simply direct  
them to the octave.sourceforge.net website.  Needless to say, I would  
like a complete set of the website HTML files so the index database  
will be complete.

John Swensen